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  • Using Food  PRO

    Contributed by Steve Malone on Feb 4, 2003
    based on 42 ratings
     | 3,223 views

    Mark Buchanan writes; “Fasting churns the stuff up from the depths. Is there anger in me? I can usually control that with a burger and fries Am I resentful, irritated, overly ambition, fearful? I can smoother that with pizza. Am I depressed or embittered, suffering from a sense of life’s ...read more

  • Wrong Reasons For Study Of Bible

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 21, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,591 views

    At the village church in Kalonovka, Russia, attendance at Sunday school picked up after the priest started handing out candy to the peasant children. One of the most faithful was a pug-nosed, lad who recited his Scriptures with proper piety, pocketed his reward, then fled into the fields to munch ...read more

  • Together, Nine Physically Handicapped Persons ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scotty Killingsworth on Dec 13, 2001
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,283 views

    Together, nine physically handicapped persons conquered Mount Rainier. One of the mountain climbers had an artificial leg. Another was an epileptic. Two were deaf, and five were blind. Despite these handicaps, the nine successfully negotiated the 14,000 foot climb and got back down again. Asked how ...read more

  • Cost Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2010
     | 3,083 views

    Cost of Freedom At Hebron Baptist Church several years ago a speaker named Clebe McClary spoke. There was a patch where his left eye had once been. A hook extended from the artificial limb where a strong arm had once helped make him an outstanding athlete. He had been through countless surgeries to ...read more

  • For Two Years, Scientists Sequestered Themselves ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joanna Loucky-Ramsey on Nov 4, 2002
    based on 109 ratings
     | 3,116 views

    For two years, scientists sequestered themselves in an artificial environment called Biosphere 2. Inside their self-sustaining community, the Biospherians created a number of mini-environments, including a desert, rain forest, even an ocean. Nearly every weather condition could be simulated except ...read more

  • In 1918, Inspired By The Poem,

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
     | 2,148 views

    In 1918, inspired by the poem,"In Flanders Fields," an American teacher named Moina Michael, who was working with the Overseas YMCA, wrote her own poem entitled “We Shall Keep The Faith.” We cherish too, the Poppy red That grows on fields where valor led, It seems to signal to the skies That ...read more

  • The First Glimmers That Excluding Design ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 24, 2001
    based on 40 ratings
     | 1,185 views

    The first glimmers that excluding design artificially restricts science come from admissions by scientists opposed to design. The arch-Darwinist Richard Dawkins begins his book The Blind Watchmaker by stating, "Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been ...read more

  • Hardship And Discipline

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,510 views

    HARDSHIP AND DISCIPLINE No professional football team that plays its home games in a domed stadium with artificial turf has ever won the Super Bowl. While a climate-controlled stadium protects players (and fans) from the misery of sleet, snow, mud, heat, and wind, players who brave the ...read more

  • At A Certain Moment, A Doctor Will Determine ...  PRO

    Contributed by Howard Flynn on May 17, 2001
    based on 135 ratings
     | 3,720 views

    "At a certain moment, a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that, for all intents and purposes, my life has stopped. When that happens, do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by the use of a machine. And don’t call this my "deathbed." Call it my "bed of ...read more

  • Oxymorons  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,221 views

    OXYMORONS (contradictory words) Act naturally Advanced basic Airline food Almost exactly Alone together Artificial intelligence Awful good Campaign promise Civil war Clearly misunderstood Computer jock Definite maybe Diet ice ...read more

  • Light Brings Joy

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Feb 7, 2010
     | 2,436 views

    Light brings Joy I remember the very first winter after I became an accountant. I would leave home while it was still dark. Sit in an office in artificial light until lunch time. Pop out for a sandwich, bring it back to my desk, eat it there. Then by the time I left at 5 or 6 it was already ...read more

  • Epaphroditus -…his Name Means "Charming." And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Mitchell on Mar 6, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,621 views

    EPAPHRODITUS -…His name means “charming.” And what a charming winsome person he was. Paul uses four words to describe him, “brother, companion, fellow-soldier, and messenger.” The Greek word “brother,” means literally, “from the same womb.” It speaks of a common origin. A common origin speaks of a ...read more

  • The Light Of Hope  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 10,250 views

    THE LIGHT OF HOPE As Craig T. Kocher in his commentary on our text states, "Christian hope is fundamentally different from optimism. Christian hope locks its steely eyes on the devastation of the world around it, and readily acknowledges that things may not get better. Christian hope does not bury ...read more

  • The Best Change  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Dec 3, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 3,484 views

    THE BEST CHANGE Our world has changed dramatically in the past 100 years, and futurists predict that even greater changes are coming. Consider these facts: We now watch as routine space shuttles that propel people into space and land routinely. Yet, it was under 100 years ago that the first ...read more

  • In A Market-Driven Age We Are Accustomed To ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 23, 2008
     | 1,341 views

    “In a market-driven age we are accustomed to think of every church having a special niche, of every visitor as a prospective customer, and every aspect of worship designed to satisfy the consumers. Paul was reminding the Galatians that the gospel was not a product to be peddled on the marketplace ...read more

  • Maybe You Heard About The Guy Who Fell In Love ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joel Pankow on May 10, 2001
    based on 274 ratings
     | 7,108 views

    Maybe you heard about the guy who fell in love with an opera singer. He hardly knew her, since his only view of the singer was through binoculars - from the third balcony. He was convinced he could live “happily ever after” married to a voice like that. He scarcely noticed that she was ...read more

  • A Year Or So Ago The Rage On Tv Was The Reality ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on May 5, 2003
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,512 views

    A year or so ago the rage on TV was the reality shows. Survivor was the first one that made it it big. The selling point was that instead of actors, these were real, every-day people. The outcome was not scripted and no one knew who would come out the survivor at the end. Since then many other ...read more

  • Happy To Be Alive  PRO

    Contributed by James O. Davis on Oct 28, 2003
    based on 9 ratings
     | 2,910 views

    HAPPY TO BE ALIVE Bob Leland is a man who really encouraged me several years ago. You may have seen him on television. He has a healthy dose of enthusiasm for life. You may remember, he ran the New York marathon in 98 hours, 47 minutes, and 17 seconds. That’s not bad for someone who has no ...read more

  • Thought Particles: Pandora.com Is A Streaming ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
     | 1,354 views

    Thought Particles: Pandora.com is a streaming music service. Tell Pandora what songs you like and she’ll figure out what all those songs have in common that you never realized. If I like songs with a subtle blues or country influence, I’m probably a sucker for paired harmony, a syncopated rhythm, ...read more

  • Adults Often Don't Grasp Mature, Christian Love. ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,178 views

    Adults often don’t grasp mature, Christian love. Chuck Swindoll told about the guy who fell in love with an opera singer. He hardly knew her, since his only view of the singer was through binoculars--from the third balcony. But he was convinced he could live happily ever after married to a voice ...read more

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